"Polkasha - Molodets!" by Kusochkin, 35 x 50 cm, 1999

Genre: Naive

Method: Oil on canvas

Year: 1999

Size: 35 x 50 cm

Artist: Grigory Pavlovich Kusochkin. He began painting in 1986, first using tempera, then shifting to oil. Kusochkin’s art was born in the years of abundant freedom and democracy in the second half of the 1980s, it came out of the same bosom of urban culture that ditties (chastushki) and jokes. It is not by chance that the artist’s first works echoed the stories of oral folklore.